Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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om6 Civil Engineering Any . . . furp . . . questions? . . . and many a First Class Civil crosses himself preliminary to his battle with a handbook, incanting the magic words: Sigma F-sub-Y. However, they know that life is not all rainy days, and that they will soon hear Uncle Buzz ' s cheerful voice singing: All right . . . take ' em out! Easily constituting the most practical course offered here at the Institute, the knowledge of Civil Engineering to be gotten from Uncle Buzz, Bootie, The Wink, and the T-Bear places those who aspire to write C. E. after their John Henries second, technically, to none. And don ' t think, in spite of their labored scorn for the finer things of life, that these pebble-pushers never sweat it out around Tattoo . . . for Purgatory knows no agony keener than that of the poor Civil as he locks horns with a Cooper ' s E-60. Still, these boys have had their lighter moments, for who can deny that fully one-third of their time was spent in instructive and refreshing travel under the guiding wing of the A. S. T. S., flitting hither and yon to gape at the latest culvert or Roanoke ' s new sewers. All in all, our Civils have had a well-rounded existence, and they should be amply prepared to build for humanity and the W. P. A. in a way that will but reflect further on the genuine ability of the Department of Civil Engineering. Colonel Robert A. Man. Jr. Department Head Mr. Potter, Mr. Ewring, Colonel Marr (Department Head), Colonel Boykin, Colonel Mann [21] »deX€H to t, (nfCnia

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7 f947 Chemistry COLONEL LESLIE A. GERMAN Department Head Mr. Grosly, I will GIVE you a two . . . how many times have the struggling stink-makers heard that immortal line! The combination of Les, Butch, Doc, and Rocks is enough to discourage all but the hardiest, for these ' boys demand a thoroughly trained product before giving their stamp of approval. All cadets are required to study the elements of Chem- istry during their rat year, but only those who do not know when they have had enough, viz., the Chemists and the Pre-Meds, stride on into the gaping maws of Qual, Physical, and Organic. And in addition to the staggering load of zips most Chem boys amass, there is the additional element of personal danger: Butch never knows when some demented third- classman, crazed by the utter futility of it all, will attempt to concoct a dynamite cocktail down in Johnson Memorial Hall, to save others from the living death. We, for one, would nominate all who inhabit that fragrant build- ing for honorable mention, for not only must the novice have personal courage, a numb nose, and a sublime faith in a personal destiny, but he must be eager to train himself in order that he may live up to the standards of our excellent Department of Chemistry. Major Willard, Mr. Drake, Dr. Taylor, Colonel Carroll, Colonel Ritchie, Colonel Steidtman, Colonel German (Department Head) [20] infitUa. TfUUtaniCf H4t£ tte

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7 e m. Electrical Engineering NOOO-oooo . . . it ' s not a Noahth paole; it ' s a Noahth-SEEKING paole! ! ! ! That line is common- place to our highbrow Brother Rats, to those ambulatory clumps of thought-ganglia and plus-forty specs, to those embryo Steinmetzes with the insulated nerves and the high-resistance brains who would wrest victory from the grim clutches of the Four Horsemen: The Foot, Lightnin ' Bill, Buruiy, and the Senator. These fearless Four combine to make the EE course the Ultima Thule; and they delight in doling out the zips-over-three to the sleepless wrecks who face them, invariably at 0800, after a night of peering over smoking slipsticks to watch that The Man doesn ' t dole out a few demos. In between bouts with D-operators, these boys amuse themselves in the lab by constructing motors which burn quietly when started, lighting circuits which don ' t light, and the like; when last seen, they were collaborating on an electronic still. Maybe they aren ' t so impractical at that . . . Easily the hardest-working, most-poorly-rewarded group at the Institute, these little Einsteins should find it a snap to whittle out a niche in History ' s Hall, after their most thorough and rigorous preparation vmder the direction of our efficient Electrical Engi- neering Deparbnent. Biigadiei-Gen. Stewart W. Anderson Depaztiaent Head Mr. Eklund, Major Home, Mr. Gladden, Colonel Trinkle, General Anderson (Department Head), Colonel Jamison [22] j TftciitdfUf K4tUc te